The concept is pretty easily, pick your ten favorite movies from the eighties. The hard part? I want JUST movies from the eighties, not movies you might have seen during the eighties. Also, try and avoid movies that came out after the eighties if possible, 1990 is pretty borderline, I won't scream too loudly if you add one that is from then...

80s were the time of Malls and corporate america really sold to kids and they responded in a big way by taking advantage of society. The result is that you have a bunch of kids thinking they are adults yet they have no clue.

We all knew someone like ferris and we all knew someone like Ed Rooney. Ferris shows how a teenager can think in one day by simply exploiting the fact of an overbearing authority figure running a school and also make him look like a jerk while doing it.

Instant hit for anyone who views this movie from the ages of 15-26. How can critic's say the movie has no point? Obviously they dont know what it is like to get ready to face the real world, once the comfort and good times with school buddies is over.

This movie really sums up the 80s in almost 2 hrs. Every genre of student is portrayed in this Hughes classic, while they are socially different, their thoughts are all the same in wondering how to deal with cultural issues.

First foreign language film to keep me interested. Not a fan of war movies generally but this film really digs deep to look at the people within the u boats. Gives a different perspective from british films I grew up seeing, all Germans where portrade as Evil, for the first time I relaised that there were normal soliders and hourable men involved on both sides.

Yes I'm a horror fan but I'm not so single minded that I cant appreciate other genres. What I loved most about this film was the message that it didnt matter what your background was or the group you belonged to, real power could be taken away from those that abuse it so long as those that see injustice work together to do something. OK its a boy girl hate the rich kid film and perhaps I'm seeing more than is there but what the hell its still a feel good film to this day, plus how sexy is a female drummer!

Often 3rd in most fans reviews of the George Romero trilogy. I rate it higher I suppose because it was the first one I ever saw but more than that it played an important part in my teenage mind set when the cold war was still very much in the news. A simplistic view point saw good v evil being played out not with as you might think with the zombies on the side of evil (nasty though they where with the exception of Bub!) it was the military mindset v the scientists that was the true story of the film.

favourite of the John Carpenter movies simply because of the idea behind it all and the subtext of how controlled our lives are without realising it. Plus it has the greatest fight scene in any movie, I kid you not.

I doubt my list will have any great effect on the rating but I wanted to show that the 80's was a great time for horror movies. OK a lot where banned at the time like the evil dead and many others but these films where fun and you didnt have to be a weird looking geeky loner to appreciate them.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Friday The 13th The serpent and the rainbow. Firestarter.

By: Jeep

10. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

A mammoth mentally handicapped psychotic man carrying a midget and Mad Max locked in a cage. Pig feces is used for fuel. This movie is actually pretty poor, but that hasn't stopped me from putting the other movies on this list. Saw this one in the theater too.

9. Plains, Trains & Automobiles

This movie starts out funny and seems to just keep getting funnier. Then they have to kill my mood by revealing John Candy is homeless and his wife is dead. Why didn't they just give him cancer and push me into a complete depression after watching it. Still a very good movie. Until the end. Saw this one in the theater